After Becoming The Tyrant

After a meaningful duel, there should indeed be enthusiastic cheers.But the nobles present were shocked by the fierceness shown by the king, and no one reacted for a while.

Except for one person.

Duke of Buckingham.

The old duke walked out of the VIP table wearing a scarlet cloak similar to his nephew.He came to the middle of the nave, knelt down on one knee facing the young king on the high platform, and performed the etiquette of a knight swearing allegiance.Just like the king was crowned here back then, and he led everyone to swear allegiance to the king.

"God bless my king!"

The voice of the Duke of Buckingham echoes in St Wythe's Cathedral.

"God bless Legrand!"

The royalists wearing iron roses followed the Duke of Buckingham and left the seat.They also came to the narrow red carpet and knelt down on one knee to the king on the high platform.

"God bless my king!"

"God bless Legrand!"

Their voices gathered together, arousing the blood in people's hearts.

The weapons in the hands of the nobles of the New Royal Party fell to the ground one after another.With pale faces, they left their seats one by one, and joined this grand ceremony of swearing allegiance again in disguise.In the end, all the knights present fell to their knees, and this large-scale pilgrimage for the first time since King Purland I ascended the throne achieved its due political purpose.

The cardinal had a livid face, watching all this happen but was powerless to stop it.

He understood that his plan to increase the Holy Court's influence on Legrand this time had come to naught.Amidst the cheers, the majesty of Legrand's imperial power was strengthened like never before.

His plans are all over!His dream of promotion is over!

Outside St. Wythe's Cathedral, General Edmund of the Angor army who was guarding here sighed softly.

For a long time, people have mistaken a male lion for a cowardly dog.

General Edmund seems to have seen the glory of the Qiangwei family flourishing again...God!Bless them Angel, and hope that their gamble will not be lost.

Cheers echoed under the glorious dome of St.Whis Cathedral.

The cold winter wind whizzed by, and the dead body of the person who tried to usurp the throne was lying under the throne behind the young king, with blood flowing out. The blood soaked the chair symbolizing supreme power for hundreds of thousands of years, day after day. .The king was condescending, his gaze passing over everyone.

This is Legrand.

Those who flow the blood of the rose here are kings from generation to generation.

God bless the king!

God bless Legrand!

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Rose Palace.

The historic palace has returned to its true owner.

In the king's room, the fire in the fireplace was blazing, and the light of the fire made the exquisite relief paintings on the walls more and more lifelike.Here, rose patterns can be seen everywhere, and the floor of the room is covered with a complex and slightly strange carpet.

The king lowered his eyes slightly, looking at the embroidered patterns on the carpet.

The workmanship was exquisite, but it was the pictorial content that caught the king's attention.

It was a pale keel surrounded by scarlet roses.Judging from the proportion of the keel to the mountain it was crawling on, the dragon must have been astonishingly huge when it was still alive.

"His Majesty."

The Duke of Buckingham, who had changed his clothes, came in, and he was much relieved that his nephew had returned safely.When he saw the king, he smiled slightly.

"You arrived just in time."

"It was you who held them back." The king closed his book, and he placed a chair beside him, apparently for the Duke of Buckingham.With the character of the king, this is already a kind of implicit intimacy, "The hand of the Holy See is getting longer and longer."

"They've been around for years."

When mentioning the Holy See, the Duke of Buckingham had a cold look on his face, and he said lightly.

"I heard that different factions have begun to fight within the Holy Court on the other side of the Abyss Strait. Coupled with the booming business, I'm afraid some old antiques can't sit still." The king thought thoughtfully.

After the disguised second oath of allegiance ceremony in St. Weiss Cathedral, the young cardinal, the Pope's special envoy, quickly left the city of Mezl.

It seemed that he also understood that after the return of the king, he must have a deep intention to kill him.

If the king wants to stop him, it is not impossible, but now that the civil strife has just subsided, it may not be a good idea to turn against the pope.So the king only sent people to look around the cardinal's residence. The young cardinal was so frightened that he climbed out of the room overnight over the wall and fled in embarrassment.

It was a little revenge for the king.

The Duke of Buckingham stared at his nephew and let out a long sigh: "You have grown up."

"You speak in such a way that you treat me like a child," replied the king. "I am, let me remind you, of age."

The Duke of Buckingham smiled and said nothing.

The king smiled too.

In the eyes of others, everything today may seem like a miracle with the help of the Holy Lord, or the devil—well, there is, but only the king himself knows best that this is actually an all-out, multi-party effort. The result of cooperation.

Oh, Grand Duke Grace himself also contributed a lot in this cooperation.

Even so, the Grand Duke will not be happy at all.

Things had to be dialed back.

The most critical thing is that the king rescued the Duke of Buckingham in time in late September.

The king was on guard against the possible assassination and coup d'etat at any time, sent the Duke of Buckingham back to the Rose Palace, and granted him the right to be regent in public.Therefore, when the news of the king's death spread later, the Duke of Buckingham could suppress the deterioration of the situation as quickly as possible.

When the Duke of Buckingham was trying his best to reduce the influence of rumors in Metzl Castle, the king also sent the knight commander and another oath knight as messengers.

The knight captain, an exiled member of the Angor royal family, went to contact the Angor state on behalf of the king himself, while the other oath knight carried the king's letter, disguised himself, and walked the shortest distance at the fastest speed. Drive to Mezl Castle.

This second letter was addressed to the Duke of Buckingham.

In the letter, the king carefully described his situation and his next plan.

Due to the heavy guards of the Grand Duke Grace along the way, the oath knight spent some time and energy in order to get rid of those annoying little mice, otherwise he should have arrived earlier.

Fortunately, the Duke of Buckingham, who was in the Rose Palace, was loyal to his nephew and fought openly with Grand Grace, winning precious time for the king.When the Pope's envoy arrived, the oath knight also successfully delivered the letter to the Duke of Buckingham in secret.

The Duke of Buckingham, who was already almost desperate, immediately cheered up when he received the king's letter.

In the letter, the king mentioned which route he would take to reach the capital, and the experienced Duke of Buckingham immediately sent his cronies to try their best to get in touch with the king—this is also the royalist who attended the coronation ceremony of Grand Duke Grice today. One of the main reasons why there are so few people.

After contacting the king, the Duke of Buckingham immediately and neatly gave up the confrontation with Grand Duke Grace, and chose to back down.

The old duke acted realistically, even enduring the desire to chop off the head of Grand Duke Grace with a sword, and held a welcome ceremony for the occasion outside the gate of Mezl.

Of course, Grand Duke Grace, who had already lost his life, was not that stupid.

He was on the alert for the Duke of Buckingham, which happened to be part of the King and Duke's plan.

In order to attract the attention of the Duke of Grace, the Duke of Buckingham refused to hand over the Rose Palace, and personally garrisoned the Rose Palace, and lived in the same city as the Grand Duke of Grace, forcing the Duke of Grace to pay close attention to the Duke of Buckingham. movement.

Let's take a look at the approximate spheres of influence of the Royalist Party and the New Royalist Party.

The royalist party represented by the Duke of Buckingham is mainly concentrated in the north, while the forces of Grand Duke Grace relying on the Five Ports Alliance on the Southeast Coast are mainly distributed in the south.In order to prevent the Duke of Buckingham's violent attack, the Grand Duke Grice had to guard the north.

However, when Grand Duke Grice turned all his attention to the north, the king had already led an army disguised as Grand Duke Grice to quietly circle the side of Metzl City from the south.

Thanks to Grand Duke Grace for continuously dispatching troops to the north during this period. After the king let his army put on the white rose battle flag, the speed of travel was much faster.

I have to say that Grand Duke Grace is really a good man.

The Duke of Buckingham knew his old opponent so well that he even guessed who the Grand Duke of Grace would choose to command the rescue army, and conveyed the news to the king in time.

After the king received the news, he immediately realized that this was a good opportunity.

As the capital of the Legrand Empire, Metzl City has tall and thick walls, suitable for defense.If you want to attack Metzl by force, it will not only take a lot of manpower and material resources, but also take a long time.Originally, the king planned to cooperate with the Duke of Buckingham to open the city gate from the inside.

But the Duke of Grace is closely watching the Duke of Buckingham's movement at this time, and the risk of doing so is higher.

Now, Grand Duke Grace delivered the key to open the city gate to the king.

Angor's army was lightly armed and marched faster.In the evening of yesterday, the king had actually led his soldiers to the vicinity of the city of Mezl.

After carefully observing the terrain, the king stationed his army on both sides of a valley that he must pass through.It was daylight this morning, when Grand Duke Grace's rescue army arrived in the valley, giant logs and rolling stones rolled down the hillsides on both sides.Many cavalrymen lost their lives before they could figure out what happened.

It was not a battle at all, but a massacre.

The bewildered reinforcements huddled together and trampled each other, while the recharged king's army cut the ranks to pieces like canine teeth intertwined left and right.

In the end, they almost came out with blood and corpses, including the king, all of them were covered in blood.

Baron Born survived.

But it was not luck, nor his bravery, but the king ordered him to be spared in advance.

Baron Born is the key to trick the gate into the city without bloodshed.

However, in order to prevent Baron Born from betraying them, Baron Born's armor was stripped, and when he rode away from the army, at least ten bows in the army were aimed at the back of his head-there seems to be no "" in the king's dictionary" For the words "follow the routine", he doesn't care whether the means used are despicable or not.

The white rose flag representing the New Royal Party, the familiar Baron Born, the correct semaphore...

The gates opened.

From that moment on, everything was doomed.

The king returned to the throne through blood and war.

The Duke of Buckingham sighed softly in his heart when he heard the king's understatement about the things along the way.

Really like ah.

and his father.

"Well, I'm so happy." The Duke of Buckingham showed a gratified smile, "Legrand now has a real king."

The king uttered a single tone, without contradicting his words.

The king knew exactly how much risk the Duke of Buckingham had taken in this series of plans.

If the king is really dead, then the Duke of Buckingham will be completely ruined.If the king does not arrive at St.Wyth's Cathedral in time, the Duke of Buckingham will fight the new royal party to the death...

Then the final result is nothing more than the death of the Duke of Buckingham and the Grand Duke of Grace.

No one mentioned any of this.

The result is as one wishes, and the things that should be remembered will naturally be remembered by those who should remember.

"God bless Legrand."

said the Duke of Buckingham.

The king disagreed.

It would be more appropriate to say that the devil is helping.

The King has defended his throne with the blood of Grand Duke Grace, and things are largely over, but there's still plenty to do.

such as……

A reckoning.

Ah, don't forget, our king is also very good at taking revenge, and it's time for those new royalists to pay for what they have done.

It is worth mentioning that after the "coronation" ceremony, the king politely invited all the participating nobles to the Rose Palace - he just asked the soldiers to point the iron arrows at them, not Isn't it polite enough to put a knife on their neck?

"What are you going to do about it?"

asked the Duke of Buckingham.

"Killing all of them is better to avoid future troubles?"

the king said nonchalantly.

From the king's point of view, Legrand lacked everything, except nobility.

Any nobleman, who doesn't have dozens of children waiting to inherit the title.This group of unconscious nobles died, and the time it took for the new nobles to grow up was enough for the king to strip them of their rights.

However, after thinking about it, the king regretfully gave up this plan.

After all, in this era, the rules of the world's knight wars are still there. Even nobles who are defeated will not be killed, but will be released after paying a ransom.Moreover, during this period of concealment, the king also got a general idea of ​​the situation of the county and the bottom-level situation of Legrand by the way.

The great nobles play an important role in the country's political system, and dealing with too many at one time will cause new turmoil.

Very regrettable.

However, time is long.

The Duke of Buckingham looked at the king wordlessly.

"It's a joke, don't be so serious."

the king said lightly.

No.

thought the Duke of Buckingham.

I don't think you are joking at all.

"Well, let's come and meet these..." The king stood up, paused, and smiled meaningfully, "These rich and generous gentlemen."

He bites the words "rich" and "generous" very hard.

The author has something to say: King: Just kidding.

Duke of Buckingham: You don't seem to be just joking.